Word: spinsterism
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...pecked husband, domineering wife, spinster sister-in-law, and haughty cook all enter the mix-up. Though some of the scenes where the maid, after finishing three bottles of Scotch, takes the baby out for a walk and makes long distance calls to California are as funny as the best comedies, "Three's A Family" is not always up to par. It is good in spots and barely gets by the rest of the time...
Farmermaid. A spinster, Miss Willson painted in a Greene County, N.Y. farm cabin sometime between 1800 and 1825. The Willson watercolors are among the earliest primitives in the history of U.S. art. Miss Willson shared her farm life with a hardy settler named Miss Brundage. A kind of 19th-Century Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the two women built their own log cabin. Then, while Miss Willson sat down to paint, Miss Brundage tilled the soil. The Willson pictures were sold to farmers and other buyers as far north as Canada, as far south as Mobile. The artist...
Creator of the birds is Dorothy Doughty (rhymes with doubty), eldest daughter of the late great Charles Montagu (Travels in Arabia Deserta) Doughty (TIME, Sept. 6). Shy, 51 and a spinster, Ceramist Doughty lives in Cornwall, England. Some ten years ago, she was inspired by John James Audubon's Birds of America, is now England's only fashioner in porcelain of the birds...
Priestley Sentiment. Many character types from earlier Priestley novels reappear in the Elmdown Aircraft factory: Sammy Hamp, whose limp and withered arm accentuates the humility that makes him the happiest man in the place; Edith Shipton, the sex-starved spinster whose shoddy affair with a headmaster is replaced by genuine love for the implacably good Arthur Bolton, whose family and little shop have been obliterated by a Nazi bomb; Sister Filey, in charge of the clinic, whose female vitality is boundless and unbounded by the usual conventions...
...taken from my play, A La Creole, which was produced at Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré in New Orleans in 1927, by the Professional Players in Philadelphia and the Pasadena Community Playhouse. The speech in the play is made by a little Creole spinster doing job work in Madame Toup's carnival costume shop. Mademoiselle Titine says: "It was a religion my Pappa had for opera, yas. Me, I can show you that box at the opera where I am almost born! It was Les Huguenots and when the chorus sing...